Do not eat cocaine or cocaine by-products?

See, I do this to myself with my blog. If I publish a hundred articles, I might get a few that are genuinely popular and go a bit viral. Then I ask myself why I can't replicate that outcome at will.

important cause. You *have* to learn to tolerate people who don't do the zealot thing and even find some respect for them, otherwise you'll lose your mind and become morally compromised.

They just aren't. They care more about their families, their local communities, hobbies, having fun, any number of other things: they don't want to dedicate bandwidth to sweeping causes.

And that's not a bad thing! People aren't morally inferior just because they don't want to wave a banner for an

I think one thing that you need to learn in the process of growing up if (like me) you have a personality that often tends towards "zealot" is that other people aren't necessarily going to be willing to make the same sacrifices or put in the same effort or care into causes that you are.

You know, it's really charming how Winnie's grown with me. When I was a small child from an immigrant family, I knew him as the person who hated on immigrants all the time. Now I'm a grown woman, and I know him as the guy who's constantly really fucking transphobic.

At this point I have no idea what's going on with Winston. The man's a walking cognitohazard, except that instead of breaking your brain he's just really racist

There's still work to do: Nuxt-Content 3 introduced breaking changes so I need to rework everything that uses Content. But we'll get there!

I just spent 90 minutes teaching the fundamentals of probability theory to a software engineer and it was an *indecent* amount of fun

We had them, but they were wood-fired and painfully inefficient.

Honestly, I didn't get it until the first year of university. They are *very* useful for a lot of things in mathematical physics. Extremely easy way to encode phase information

We need to wipe Pakuranga and Botany off the map (no, that definitely isn't where I spent my adolescence. Why do you ask?)

What was the line about Veppers? "So evil that it took a whole decade before a revisionist historian tried to whitewash him"?

He would not be able to deal with the fact that he'd be living in a society where an orgy is generally considered a fun way to spend an afternoon and even in this maximally sexually permissive environment, he *still* won't be able to get laid.

What's so offensive about a different field completion?

Irrationals are any number that can't be expressed as a standard fraction (a ratio of integers). The square root of two is the canonical example, in fact.

As for imaginary numbers, they're the same thing as vulgar fractions and 2-vectors: we just define addition and multiplication differently.

It's also the side profile of the B-2 Spirit, if you're into that kind of thing.

Auckland has lots of good spots. It's just a pity that they're all separated by large swathes of truly awful suburb

He cannot be serious about Poland. Like, he knows how that would inevitably end, right?

Seriously, though, are we still relitigating the thing that got Hippasus drowned?

God created the integers, all else is the work of man.

Nunc Dimittis Servum Tuum...

(Is this too deep a cut for what's technically wishing death on someone)?

better than being incapable of knowing things at all.

This is particularly important in the Year of our Lord 2026. Actually knowing things is pretty rare at the moment. If you do know something, people will disagree with you. You gotta hold to the thing that you know anyway. Even if it's wrong: knowing something that turns out not to be right is still

We speak not of that city (I lived there for many years)

There's that, and then there's the uncomfortable fact that my vocab's really lacking because I just don't use the language much day-to-day

Oh, hi! (I speak and read Polish well enough, but for whatever reason I have a mental block about writing it. Don't quite know why)

Also if you object to feeling an association with Israel bc of Israeli war crimes, I have bad news about Britain

They will be *scandalised* to find that the frequentist foundation of statistics is openly debated and that Objective Bayesianism as a statistical epistemology is actually quite popular

Trying to explain anything about the actual experience of the Shoah to people who don't come from the place where it happened often feels like a waste of breath a lot of the time. There are many contradictions and people don't seem to like that